[jimmydean]

What bothers me the most is the fact that this kid was mauled AT HER GRANDMAS HOUSE BY HER DOGS. It's not like she was attacked by a neighbors dog, or a pack of wild dogs roaming in the streets, she was in the back yard of her grandmas house and her grandmothers dogs didn't want to play nice.

 

[JohnE]

...not to mention Grampa had 10 pitbulls...wtf are you thinking?

 

[jimmydean]

...not to mention Grampa had 10 pitbulls...wtf are you thinking?

Damn, I didn't see that, just saw it was 3 that attacked the little kid. People wonder why pit bulls have a bad rap.

 

[Pesqueeb]

On a slightly lighter note, was just sent this link by a friend. I'm still trying to figure out if Poe's law is applicable here.

 

[jimmydean]

On a slightly lighter note, was just sent this link by a friend. I'm still trying to figure out if Poe's law is applicable here.

That's awesome, $6.99 for $20. If only they took bitcoin.

 

[stevew]

about but lately I've been looking forward to living in the county and yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

you can tell them to get of your stoop....

 

[stevew]

backround checks for nannies?

 

[jonKranked]

re: judging people on welfare:

We didn't deserve to be poor, any more than we deserved to be rich. Poverty is a circumstance, not a value judgment.

So if you ever find yourself questioning a poor person with a cellphone, or a lady on food stamps still getting her hair done — also a criticism lobbed at Katrina Gilbert, a poor single mother in Chattanooga who did all the right things and still struggled to get by — then consider that perhaps the person with the f*cked up value system is you.

http://jezebel.com/white-lady-drives-mercedes-to-pick-up-food-stamps-chao-1602521193/+pgeorge

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

re: judging people on welfare

What say you about the people paying for milk and bread with foodstamps in one transaction, then pulling a roll of $20's out of their pocket to pay for big screen TVs and designer clothing in another transaction? I have witnessed this first hand a few times.

The article you posted is clearly not this case at all...but it's what made me think of it.

 

[jonKranked]

What say you about the people paying for milk and bread with foodstamps in one transaction, then pulling a roll of $20's out of their pocket to pay for big screen TVs and designer clothing in another transaction? I have witnessed this first hand a few times.

The article you posted is clearly not this case at all...but it's what made me think of it.

i know what welfare fraud looks like.

i wonder why, if, has anyone considered the potential impacts of drug legalization on welfare fraud?

 

[jimmydean]

Author Of Excellent ‘Stop Being Gay’ Book Arrested For Molesting Teen Boy, Allegedly, Again

On the one hand, it looks like pretty strong evidence that attempts to pray away the gay just don’t take, but we’d also like to point out that, comes right down to it, the gay is a far less problematic issue here than the teenager-raping.

 

[$tinkle]

dante taught me that anecdote != research

here's some research:

http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf
http://www.edweek.org/topics/sexualmisconduct/index.html

 

[IH8Rice]

theres still hope..except for the people probably bitching that their train was late

 

[$tinkle]

theres still hope..except for the people probably bitching that their train was late

 

[dan-o]

theres still hope..except for the people probably bitching that their train was late

I'm disgusted that it took 2:25 for them to figure that out.

 

[$tinkle]

"opening credits"

did you not see my post?

 

[JustMtnB44]

People like this:
Wash. teen, 17, raped and murdered 6-year-old neighbor, attended vigil for girl before arrest: police

 

[pnj]

^will be tried as an adult.

 

[$tinkle]

life imitates urban legend

 

[syadasti]

More victims of the other bad McCarthyism:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/07/vitamin-k-injection-infants-safety

 

[Pesqueeb]

I thought that was going to be about Ted Cruz.

 

[$tinkle]

JM needs to cut off her beautiful tits with a rusty putty knife (hope she's had her tetanus shots).

no winners, but i don't see another way out

 

[jimmydean]

Meanwhile in Texas...

A recent decision from the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that at-will employees can't sue their employer for fraud over the loss of their jobs. In his opinion, Chief Justice Nathan Hecht held that "while an employee can sue an employer for fraud in some situations... [a] claim cannot be based on illusory promises of continued at-will employment."

Hmm, those Koch brothers are some serious job creators.

DuPont assured its employees that it had absolutely no plans to sell the spin-off. Based on this promise almost everyone moved to the subsidiary, which a few weeks later DuPont sold to Koch Industries. Koch cut both salaries and retirement packages. DuPont had, as it turns out, been negotiating this deal the entire time.

 

[stevew]

meanwhile at a soccer stadium.

 

[jimmydean]

Walmart is changing its image.

With a new dress code and everything.

Walmart is switching up their employee dress code, but that doesn't mean they're footing the bill for the new uniforms. Even though 30,000 Walmart employees make minimum wage, they're responsible for purchasing navy or white collared shirts and khaki or black pants, capris, or skirts if they don't already own them.

But they are getting new vests for free.

 

[jimmydean]

You can't trust nobody these days!

They're often pegged as the civic-minded, do-gooding generation. But while they're still optimistic about their own personal prospects, a new study finds that today's youth are often more skeptical of the country's institutions than the young generations that preceded them.

I think its a combination of informational awareness and upbringing. My daughter has been raised to think for herself, but to also look out for others best interests. The reality is that there is a divide that is growing between the kids "in the know" and kids who remain clueless to what is going on. This I blame on the parents.

 

[JohnE]

http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20140904/NEWS05/309040066/Group-Airman-denied-reenlistment-refusing-say-help-me-God-

Didnt know where to put this, so here it is.

 

[DaveW]

So only people with a history of susceptibility to delusional thought patterns can be allowed to handle advanced weaponry?

 

[eric strt6]

http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20140904/NEWS05/309040066/Group-Airman-denied-reenlistment-refusing-say-help-me-God-

Didnt know where to put this, so here it is.

so I guess I would not pass muster either

 

[JohnE]

Me neither...whether or not I believe in a supreme being has nothing to do with my duties in the AF, or any job for that matter.

 

[jimmydean]

I took a job as an unpaid intern and now I am suing to get paid.

So let me get this straight. You took a job as an unpaid intern, now you are mad you didn't get paid.

 

[Westy]

I took a job as an unpaid intern and now I am suing to get paid.

So let me get this straight. You took a job as an unpaid intern, now you are mad you didn't get paid.

The law says that unpaid interns are supposed to receive academic or vocational training. If they are doing work, they are employees and are to be paid.

 

[DaveW]

How do you define the difference between "vocational training" and work though?

pretty bloody easy for an employer to fudge the lines between those options to get cheap labour.

 

[jimmydean]

The law says that unpaid interns are supposed to receive academic or vocational training. If they are doing work, they are employees and are to be paid.

And that's where I ask "Aren't I supposed to be getting some form of training for (insert internship description here)?" And if not, I would quit. If you accept a job as an unpaid intern and are asked to do things outside of what was identified as intern duties, I would simply not do them unless paid.

Its not unlike what Microsoft ended up doing to contractors. Back in the day, you could work at Microsoft as a contractor, you get all the perks the campus offered, you got paid well, but you didn't get stocks or bonuses like employees do. So a group of contractors sued Microsoft, now as a contractor you can work there "no more than one year" and you must be gone for 3 months before returning. This makes a clear separation between "employee" and "contractor". You also get no use of the campus facilities outside of what you do for your job (no playing soccer on the fields, no free lunches, no exercise room access, blah, blah, blah.

This policy has been implemented at Intel, Nike, and any other firms that employ large numbers of contractors. If these conditions don't meet your expectations, too damn bad.

My girlfriends dental office has unpaid interns that usually get converted to paid positions, but at the very least they get a lot of training and experience.

<edit> Like Dave was saying, maybe fetching coffee and tapes are what they would do as paid employees, but they need to learn how to do it right the first time.

 

[DaveW]

Shes already locked up for murdering her husband but what a vile person.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10704499/Black-Widow-Helen-Milner-told-to-pay-son-55-000

 

[jstuhlman]

which one is the husband? that's just confusing. did davew have something to do with this?

 

[DaveW]

I can neither confirm nor deny that Mmike was involved.

 

[DaveW]

Pretty light weight compared to some of the things posted in this thread but still, pretty frikin low.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/63480672/Driver-tried-to-blame-dead-friend-for-crash

 

[Westy]

Pretty light weight compared to some of the things posted in this thread but still, pretty frikin low.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/63480672/Driver-tried-to-blame-dead-friend-for-crash

Dead men tell no tales.

 

[dan-o]

While at the tire store today I overheard the techs taking about how the disposable e-cigs have been the cause of 4 flats this week alone.

WTF, like tossing regular butts isn't bad/lazy enough.